The role of glutaminase in cancer

BK Masisi, R El Ansari, L Alfarsi, EA Rakha… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Increased glutamine metabolism (glutaminolysis) is a hallmark of cancer and is recognised
as a key metabolic change in cancer cells. Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease with …

Regulation of tumor metabolism by post translational modifications on metabolic enzymes

A Sawant Dessai, P Kalhotra, AT Novickis… - Cancer gene …, 2023 - nature.com
Metabolic reprogramming is a hallmark of cancer development, progression, and
metastasis. Several metabolic pathways such as glycolysis, tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle …

Targeting glutamine metabolism slows soft tissue sarcoma growth

P Lee, D Malik, N Perkons, P Huangyang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Tumour cells frequently utilize glutamine to meet bioenergetic and biosynthetic demands of
rapid cell growth. However, glutamine dependence can be highly variable between in vitro …

Dual inhibition of glutaminase and carnitine palmitoyltransferase decreases growth and migration of glutaminase inhibition–resistant triple-negative breast cancer …

LM Dos Reis, D Adamoski, ROO Souza… - Journal of Biological …, 2019 - ASBMB
Triple-negative breast cancers (TNBCs) lack progesterone and estrogen receptors and do
not have amplified human epidermal growth factor receptor 2, the main therapeutic targets …

Metabolism and immunity in breast cancer

D Zhang, X Xu, Q Ye - Frontiers of medicine, 2021 - Springer
Breast cancer is one of the most common malignancies that seriously threaten women's
health. In the process of the malignant transformation of breast cancer, metabolic …

Inhibition of glutaminase elicits senolysis in therapy-induced senescent melanoma cells

J Kim, B Brunetti, A Kumar, A Mangla, K Honda… - Cell Death & …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The cyclin D1-Cyclin-Dependent Kinases 4 and 6 (CDK4/6) complex is crucial for
the development of melanoma. We previously demonstrated that targeting CDK4/6 using …

Mitochondrial metabolism behind region-specific resistance to ischemia-reperfusion injury in gerbil hippocampus. Role of PKCβII and phosphate-activated …

M Beręsewicz-Haller, O Krupska… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Ischemic episodes are a leading cause of death worldwide with limited therapeutic
interventions. The current study explored mitochondrial phosphate-activated glutaminase …

High-throughput screening reveals new glutaminase inhibitor molecules

RK E. Costa, CT Rodrigues… - ACS Pharmacology & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The glutaminase (GLS) enzyme hydrolyzes glutamine into glutamate, an important
anaplerotic source for the tricarboxylic acid cycle in rapidly growing cancer cells under the …

[HTML][HTML] Gamut of glycolytic enzymes in vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation: Implications for vascular proliferative diseases

A Sarkar, SV Pawar, K Chopra, M Jain - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta …, 2024 - Elsevier
Vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) are the predominant cell type in the media of the
blood vessels and are responsible for maintaining vascular tone. Emerging evidence …

The Role of Alternative Splicing in Cancer: Regulatory Mechanism, Therapeutic Strategy, and Bioinformatics Application

YJ Pan, B Liu, DS Pei - DNA and Cell Biology, 2022 - liebertpub.com
Alternative splicing (AS) can generate distinct transcripts and subsequent isoforms that play
differential functions from the same pre-mRNA. Recently, increasing numbers of studies …